A monkey with Neuralink installed playing Pong with just its mind:
HARDWARE
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Neuralink Clinical Trial Patient Registration Now Open
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You can apply to be a Neuralink clinical trial patient here: https://
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Neuralink Receives FDA Approval for Human Clinical Study
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BREAKING: Elon Musk’s brain chip company, Neuralink gets FDA approval to launch its human clinical study. “The result of incredible work by the Neuralink team in collaboration with the FDA & represents an important step that will one day allow our tech to help many people.”
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Apple PyTorch Support Could Reshape AI Model Development
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Realistically the biggest wild card would be some kind of extensive PyTorch support from Apple, which could alter model development workflows—but would not break Nvidia’s grip on foundation models.
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Foundation Models Converging on Nvidia Hardware Dependency
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Foundation model developers—including at least one beyond Google/FB/OpenAI that I know of—will all be relying on Nvidia hardware going forward. The OSS/smaller model devopers might swerve (maybe w/ Apache TVM) but will also most likely rely on cuda-enabled hardware.
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Nvidia’s ML Training Dominance Through A100/H100 and CUDA
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With Nvidia going nuclear today would just re-up my last piece about how Nvidia has built a stranglehold on ML training with its A100/H100 series and, more importantly, Cuda’s deep connection with PyTorch.
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Groq ISC 2023 Workshop: DataFlow Architectures for GNN Workloads
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Join @GroqInc for an ISC 2023 Workshop Paper presentation exploring the use of dataflow architectures for GNN workloads on May 25 at 2 pm. In collaboration with @Argonne
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Analog Devices Stock Falls Amid China Sales Slowdown
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Analog Devices drops eight percent, but CEO promises a ‘soft landing’ The main culprit is China, where sales deteriorated after a healthy start in February. https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/anal
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Apple Headset Strategy: Merrill Lynch Investment Analysis
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Apple headset: don’t dismiss it, says Merrill Lynch How bad could it be? https://
thetechnologyletter.com/the-posts/appl
e-headset-dont-dismiss-it-says-merrill-lynch
… $AAPL #virtualreality #WWDC
